Aasiya began divorce proceedings on the grounds of “cruel and inhuman treatment” and won an “Order of Protection” on February 6 to force Muzzammil out of their shared house, enraging him; according to the local police chief, Muzzammil “came back to the residence and was pounding on doors and broke one window.”

Many of her contemporaries found her later seizure of the moral high ground in her dealings with the HUAC understandably enraging, given her unrepentant Stalinism: she publicly supported the Moscow purge trials and continued to insist that Stalin had created "the ideal democratic state".

Two weeks ago, he pulled the trigger, ending 40 years worth of storytelling, and further enraging fans by announcing in the same breath that both series would be replaced by cheaper-to-produce talk shows.